Travis In Austin
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An integrated system that coordinates AVs with traffic buildup is certainly much further down the line. This can happen in major cities but it will come with the cost of additional time. If freeways are congested it will put you on surface streets, alternate routes, etc.
The model will probably involve tolls and fees for Peak times. A toll lane in Austin begins next year that works that way. The toll is variable, from $1 to $5, depending on the congestion level for about 10 miles of road that goes directly into downtown.
An integrated AV system will probably give you alternateatives, freeways and less time would cost X, surface roads and longer routes would be Y. Less if you travel between 10 and 2.
UT is working on intersection and traffic control design for use with AVs. They have been asked to work up a model that gives intersection priority to emergency vehicles and those vehicles that bid for and receive priority. This would be delivery trucks, FedEx etc. As you approach an intersection and a company truck approaches perpendicular, you stop and the truck goes through. The truck that has bid and paid gets the "green" light.
There will no longer be income from traffic tickets, municipalities will have to make up that income in other ways such as this.
I think the big question is regardless of the technology, full AV, or just partial driver assistance, at what point will we see a 10 percent improvement in commute times? What percentage of vehicles in urban areas need to have the tech to see any real commute time improvement?
I think the commute times will continue to worsen as already projected and then slowly improve down the road. I think ten years is optomistic on when improvement begins, but who knows.
As always, it depends on how much of a legislative priority it is, the ever present urban vs. rural competition for funds, and how this ends up being legislated on a local,state and federal level.
As always, time will tell.
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Isn't there another rule, no work during the mid season break? I cannot keep up with it all. And wasn't Bernie talking last year about the teams going to 3 cars this year?
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Quite Hollow, great Vids, thank you for those. I really like Roy's new sub.
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other guys from houston, beaumont, and corpus made it just fine.
They flew in from Houston, CC and Bmont? Guess they lucked out and beat the weather that came in Friday morning into Spinks where I was hoping to pick up Bill. I saw things cleared up nicely by Sunday so it must have been pretty coming back.
My timing hasn't been good lately, I was in Hope a couple of weeks ago and Roy was out of the Country, but got to say hello to a couple of factory friends, but it sure would have been nice to see some old forum friends and meet some new ones.
It sounds like it was a great time, as always, with some excitement thrown in.
Looking forward to seeing more photos, especially Boxx's family.
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dwilawyer.....we missed you!!!! Daddy Dee, Bob Crites and so many others....wish y'all could have made it!
Wish I could have been there as well, I was hoping to get Bill H. to come along with me and fly him in, but weather didn't cooperate Friday morning and I don't think he had the time to do a drive in on Sat. And back on Sun.
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Just another beat up speaker sitting in a room somewhere.
Did they have those up and running for y'all to hear?
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An even older motor, BMW 1.5L single turbo, with associated turbo lag. With 5.5 bar of boost, 1300 to 1500 hp, race limits on fuel required backing boost down to about 3.8 Bar and 800 to 850hp.
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How did those pro Heresys sound?
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The Voice is what they called him.
Two essential LP's "In The Wee Small Hours" and "Songs For Swinging Lovers" from '55 and '56 respectively.
This was from his come back after his teenage idol status had declined. He was dropped by Columbia and picked up by Capitol after his rebirth as a movie actor.
Wee is considered to be one of the best vocal jazz albums ever recorded.
Those two LP's are essential in my opinion.
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I can fix it, my dad hasca bitchen set of tools.
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This just keeps getting better. This was apparently at an organized event called Rednecks With Paychecks. Here is a link to the event rules. I especially like the one that says Use your common sense.
Maybe they added that after the 2013 event in the video?
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What about suspension, a-frames, what ever those have, that would all have to be replaced or no? I am guessing it never drove the same again.
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Ford Raptor Boy thinks his truck is ready for the Big Time right off the showroom floor. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the video..... watch Raptor Boy's suspension collapse, funny as hell.
Good think he had those bead-lock wheels and really cool looking lite weight bumpers, or it could have been worse.
Great video, hard lesson learned. St. Jo Texas, why am I not surprised?
I bet the news kept getting worse for him. He probably made insurance claim and was told it wasn't covered because off road use is excluded. Just the air bags alone was probably a hefty bill. What do you think the total cost of that lesson was? 5K?
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You still near Denton? Maybe I can swing by and pick up some on the way to my cousin's house.
It looks like it should keep a long time.
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you are very funny , a 300kton yield B61 built with junked parts , cannibalized from defective units with vaccum tubes till 2020 -I thought my memory was failing me, here is the government report on refurbishment of the B-61 nuclear bomb. They are looking to have their first refurbished bomb unit completed in 2020. This is the current report on their website today.http://nnsa.energy.gov/ourmission/managingthestockpile/lifeextensionprograms
Another article from the Washington Post talking about how they take vacuum tubes from a retired B 61 and use it in another one.http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-b61-bomb-a-case-study-in-needs-and-costs/2012/09/16/494aff00-f831-11e1-8253-3f495ae70650_story.html
The quote from the 2012 article:
"They cannibalize spare B61s for parts, such as the vacuum tubes needed to keep the radars working on active bombs. If they don’t have spares, they track down outdated machines to manufacture the components themselves, as they did when they bought a machine to produce integrated circuits."
We will have vacuum tubes is the B-61 until at least 2020.
The 340KT is the 7 variant, the "strategic" model, it was updated as part of a six year refurbishment that was completed by NSAA at the end of 2008. They used tubes up until then. There are about 180 B-61s, including Variant 3 and 4s all over Europe. This is the "tactical" version and they are actively deployed and they all have tubes. Those will be replaced starting in 2020s when the Life Extended bombs are completed.
This is what the General told the WSJ about tubes in nukes in '09:
"We've done a pretty good job of maintaining our delivery platforms," the general says, by which he means submarines, intercontinental ballistic missiles and intercontinental bombers. But nuclear warheads are a different story. They are Cold War legacies, he says, "designed for about a 15- to 20-year life." That worked fine back when "we had a very robust infrastructure . . . that replenished those families of weapons at regular intervals." Now, however, "they're all older than 20 years . . . . The analogy would be trying to extend the life of your '57 Chevrolet into the 21st century."
Gen. Chilton pulls out a prop to illustrate his point: a glass bulb about two inches high. "This is a component of a V-61" nuclear warhead, he says. It was in "one of our gravity weapons" -- a weapon from the 1950s and '60s that is still in the U.S. arsenal. He pauses to look around the Journal's conference table. "I remember what these things were for. I bet you don't. It's a vacuum tube. My father used to take these out of the television set in the 1950s and '60s down to the local supermarket to test them and replace them."
And here comes the punch line: "This is the technology that we have . . . today." The technology in the weapons the U.S. relies on for its nuclear deterrent dates back to before many of the people in the room were born.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122731227702749413
It costs a lot of money to upgrade, extend the life of nukes, and a lot of time.
I think the only reason 3 and 4s were not upgraded is they thought they were going to be replaced, but the funding got cut for that in '09. Then the rest get upgraded, from chips that are currently used in microwave ovens to whatever we have advanced to that has proven reliability.
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This is What I remember. Two trays, one for those to be tested, one for those you tested.
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You know I have often wondered where all those in store tube testers went...I mean its easy to find vintage field tube testers, but the store front jobs I have never seen one. I'd love to have one in my shop. I bought a nice old Wurlitzer juke box that I have to restore for my shop... of course it might take total retirement for me to find time to do it.
I was thinking the same thing, be cool to have. I have never seen on since. You dialed up the tube number, it told you the socket number, as I recall, it was a very simple meter. Red yellow and green. Lockable cabinet below to store the tubes in. A jobber came by once a month or so to restock the tubes.
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Want to see first hand what happened to the USSR check this website for thier super high quality and superb style....
The cameras are cool, but you probably cannot get film for them anymore. Have to find a surplus source for 35mm film. But they still seem to have photo services at the drug store, but no tube checkers. There was a tube checker in every drug store when I was growing up, wonder where they all went?
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I thought my memory was failing me, here is the government report on refurbishment of the B-61 nuclear bomb. They are looking to have their first refurbished bomb unit completed in 2020. This is the current report on their website today.
http://nnsa.energy.gov/ourmission/managingthestockpile/lifeextensionprograms
Another article from the Washington Post talking about how they take vacuum tubes from a retired B 61 and use it in another one.
The quote from the 2012 article:
"They cannibalize spare B61s for parts, such as the vacuum tubes needed to keep the radars working on active bombs. If they don’t have spares, they track down outdated machines to manufacture the components themselves, as they did when they bought a machine to produce integrated circuits."
We will have vacuum tubes is the B-61 until at least 2020.
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It is the B-61, NATO has 200 of them, accordingly to the USAF General who testified in Congress in'09, and he told Congress they had vacuum tubes in them. I distinctly remember that he brought tubes to the hearing to show the committee what some of our nukes had in them.
Watching C-span I pick up all of this crazy stuff. Now I admit you cannot trust a general testifying before Congress when he says the nuke program he is in charge of is outdated, but I thought he would be somewhat accurrate when he testified that some of our gravity bombs had a vacuum tube in them. I am pretty sure he was asked if they were in current inventory and he responded that they were a small fraction of the total and they were in Europe as part of NATO.
But it was six years ago so I am probably wrong on that.
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That has got to be the worst. Saw Lafayette go from boom down to bust in the 80s, and slowly back up again. It is very sad on many levels, but I would hate the one to have to bear the news.
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GO GIANTS!
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In that neck of the woods I like the A's. Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, and all the rest from those incredible 70's teams provide a legacy even to me the recent Giants teams just can't match.
+1 Grew up on the A's. Was there for Game 3 in '89. But I also went to a lot of games at the Stick. Saw 4 future Hall if Fame players play there (24, 27, 36 and 44) but they were real heart breakers, always a bridesmaid, never the bride.
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I am insured but it wont cover my car and not all the medical bill and me missing work
how about the insurance coverage of your car - are you insured and will your insurance pick up any of the costs -Hi my name is derrick tate me and my girl friend were heading home wednesday night I was in a different vehicle in front of them we pulled up to a stop sign at k and 2 hwy the speed limit is 55 I pulled out and went left they followed behind me after making a complete stop she pulled out into the intersection and made it to her lane when a car side swiped them and caught the rear door at 70 -80 mph they didn't brake. all 3 of them were hospitalized my son was on the side that got hit both my kids got life flighted. my girlfriend is in bad shape. and to find out the other people don't have insurance.
Ok I sent you a pm with my email so we can talk more if you want and answer any questions.
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Wow! Anyone have a db meter?